Word: districts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Neutrons." He found, said Jordan, "a lot of blueprints and maps and engineering drawings and scientific data" labeled "Oak Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District." Major Jordan had never heard of the Manhattan Project, but he noted the words down. He inspected a blueprint and noted that it read: "Walls five feet thick of lead and water to control flying neutrons." He also found, he said, a note on White House stationery, "which impressed me because it had the name of Harry Hopkins printed in the upper left-hand corner. I jotted down part of the message. It said...
About 70 Harvard undergraduates are candidates for the 1949 Rhodes Scholarships. The winners will be chosen today by District Committees, and announcement of those selected will be made next Monday...
...representing Harvard, who were named by the heads of the college, will be judged tomorrow by the Massachusetts committee. Those who survive will go on to the New England District body which makes the final decision...
...only 15-day leaves which may be bought back are those which come at the end of a term. Some district VA's automatically at that time pay 15-day subsistence. In that case the veteran student can barter cash for an extension of subsidy at college...
Spencer Tracy playing an assistant District Attorney named Adam Bonner attempts to prosecute a woman (Judy Holliday) who took pot shots at her husband when she found his in the arms of another woman. Miss Hepburn (Bonner's wife) defends the accused woman. The trial becomes an attempt to defend women's rights to protect their families by any means they choose...